Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs

In continuously administered employment tests, test security may be compromised by examinees revealing test items to future test candidates. Unlike academic testing, employee selection tests generally have longer test windows and are less likely to implement new test items or have multiple parallel forms for the sake of test security. Therefore, it is important to study whether test takers can benefit from item sharing, and whether integrity and personality inventories can explain such behaviors. Results showed that casual item sharing increased test scores relative to the control group, with small to moderate effect sizes. Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability were the best predictors, with conscientiousness more influential on numerical reasoning and Emotional Stability on verbal reasoning.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Do, Ben-Roy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Drasgow, Fritz
• Chang, Hua-Hua
• Rounds, James
• Rupp, Deborah E.
• Mead, Alan

• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism
• Openness to Experience
• Item sharing
• test security
• test coaching
• verbal reasoning
• numerical reasoning
• Theory of planned behavior
• Extraversion
• Conscientiousness

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2010 Ben-Roy Do

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18555

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/18555